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Multicore

Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) -Pt 2- LynxOS-178 10G network benchmarkS

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Tim Loveless | Principal Solutions Architect: Mar 16, 2021 12:33:11 PM

_______________ Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) virtualizes network interface cards (NICs) to allow a single NIC to present itself as dozens of virtual NICs to a hypervisor. It is a hardware standard, part of the PCI-SIG (Peripheral... Read More

Who Needs a Hypervisor?

Tim Loveless | Principal Solutions Architect: Feb 25, 2021 12:59:58 PM

_______________ The standard benefits of a hypervisor are well known and often touted. Every RTOS has its hypervisor and they do genuinely help embedded designers to: Partition multicore processors into virtual machines; an elegant way to... Read More

What is Cache Coloring and How Does it Work?

Tim Loveless | Principal Solutions Architect: Feb 5, 2021 11:52:40 AM

_______________ There are substantial challenges in building secure and safe systems on multicore processors (MCPs). Last level cache contention is undoubtedly the largest source of multicore interference, and a significant challenge for real-time... Read More

On reference architectures

LYNX Software Technologies: Jan 8, 2021 11:57:36 AM

What is a reference architecture? The term “architecture” seems to be in ever increasing use in its technological context. As an extrapolation from the construction term that Frank Lloyd Wright would have been familiar with, its definition as the... Read More

Challenges Building Safe Multicore Systems

Tim Loveless | Principal Solutions Architect: Jun 15, 2020 8:12:09 AM

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What Are the Most Popular Real-Time Operating Systems in 2024?

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Nov 14, 2019 10:49:00 AM

WHO ARE WE? Lynx Software Technologies has built and supported real-time operating systems (RTOSes) since 1988. We have witnessed hardware and embedded software technologies evolve and have supported our customers through the design, development,... Read More

Do You Need a Real-Time Operating System?

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Chris Barlow | Technical Product Manager: Nov 11, 2019 10:29:00 AM

_______________ Do Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOSes) consistently provide the most effective platform for realizing your embedded software system design? Most RTOS vendors seem to think so, frequently citing RTOS benefits while rarely discussing... Read More

Embedded Best Practices at Arm Tech-con

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James Deutch | Principal Field Applications Engineer: Oct 17, 2019 2:13:00 PM

_______________ Lynx participated in this year’s Arm TechCon with a booth in the expo hall, where we demoed Lynx MOSA.ic and its components — LynxSecure®, Buildroot Linux, LynxOS-178®, and Lynx Simple Applications (which are bare-metal apps). It was... Read More

How to Choose a Real-Time Operating System

Tim Loveless | Principal Solutions Architect: Oct 14, 2019 10:32:00 AM

_______________ Choosing an RTOS is not as simple as choosing a car. We know about cars; we know their strengths and weaknesses and we intuitively understand compromises like performance vs practicality or luxury vs price. We see all kinds of... Read More

What is the Cost of a Board Support Package?

Tim Loveless | Principal Solutions Architect: Oct 1, 2019 10:35:00 AM

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